Pop singer and education activist Shehzad Roy plays chess with Malala Yousafzai. — Photo by Shehzad Roy KARACHI: “She was at her best, speaking fearlessly and boldly about the treatment of women by the Afghan Taliban, depriving an entire generation of girls of their future and how they want to erase them from society,” said … Read more
The shattering of a childhood dream is a symbol of the cruel fate of the Messi Baghdad nation. Belgian-Kurdish director Sahim Omar Khalifa has expanded his highly acclaimed 2012 short film into a poignant social drama that unfolds amid violence and fear in Iraq in 2009, during the Second Gulf War. Messi Baghdad, about a … Read more
Cigarette ash piles up on top of a few discarded CDs inside a dark room as members of the rock band Los Planetas struggle to compose tracks for their new album. This short shot conveys more than just the chaos of space. These potentially devastating discs symbolize a certain anarchic disregard for music as it … Read more